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Broad Institute, Hospitals Form Gene Therapy Nonprofit
The Broad Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, and Maine's Jackson Laboratory have formed a new nonprofit — the Center for Therapeutic Genetics — to develop gene therapies for rare diseases and cut
USC: Midlife TV viewing linked to smaller brain regions
A USC study of about 1,700 adults tracked since the late 1980s found that frequent midlife television viewing was linked to smaller memory-related brain regions and more white-matter damage decades la
Novo Nordisk Sues Eli Lilly Over 'Deceptive' GLP-1 Ads
Novo Nordisk filed a federal lawsuit against Eli Lilly in New Jersey, accusing its rival of running a "deceptive" nationwide ad campaign that uses "outdated clinical trials" to make Zepbound and Mounj
Flawed COVID NPI Studies Risk Locking In Wrong Pandemic Lessons
Stanford researchers argue recent studies claiming COVID lockdowns didn't save lives made critical errors by comparing states that all intervened within a three-week window during different outbreak p
Broad-Led Center to Reuse Gene Therapy Across Rare Diseases
Researchers at the Broad Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Jackson Laboratory launched the Center for Therapeutic Genetics, a new nonprofit developing gene-therapy platforms reusable acro
Rare disease drugmakers lobby Trump on Medicare price pilots
The Rare Disease Company Coalition lobbied the Trump administration last week to exclude orphan drugs from Medicare pricing pilots tied to the president's most-favored nation drug pricing policy.
Politicizing NIH Grants Weakens Research Risk Oversight
A Fordham law scholar argues the Trump administration's proposed OMB rule to politicize federal science grantmaking would do more than erode meritocracy or drive talent abroad — it would cripple the N
New 'Edge of Chaos' Theory Tested at Royal Society
A New Scientist features editor reviews philosopher Benedict Rattigan's Dynamic Symmetry Theory — the claim that everything from cells to stars thrives at the boundary between order and chaos — after
Ex-Workers: LifeMD Providers Saw 25 Patients Per Hour
Former LifeMD employees told STAT that telehealth providers were sometimes expected to review 25 patient cases per hour — roughly two minutes each — using only electronic intake forms, even as Novo No
FDA pins cyclospora on Taylor Farms despite false test
The FDA said Monday it remains focused on Taylor Farms' lettuce from central Mexico as the source of a multistate cyclospora outbreak, despite a false positive test result the agency briefly posted on
CO2 inhalation flushes Alzheimer's proteins from brain
A small study found that 30 minutes of intermittently inhaling 5% carbon dioxide activates the brain's deep-sleep-like waste-clearance system, flushing Alzheimer's-linked beta-amyloid and tau into the
Antibiotic Resistance Rising in Children, Study Finds
A global analysis of 106,581 pediatric infection samples across 82 countries found antibiotic resistance rose in every region from 2004 to 2022, with last-line drug resistance projected to reach 82% f
AI helps mathematician disprove 87-year-old conjecture
Harvard mathematician Levent Alpöge used Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI to disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture with a tiny counterexample announced in a single tweet, marking the most signific
How to make your vacation's mood boost last months
New psychology research suggests vacation mood benefits last far longer when trips include 'eudaimonic' activities like learning, challenge, and connection rather than pure relaxation — and can be ext
Microglia, Not Plaques, Drive Alzheimer's Sleep Loss
University of Kentucky researchers identified overactive microglia—not amyloid plaques themselves—as the primary driver of sleep disruption in an Alzheimer's mouse model, restoring more than two hours
Collagen loses molecular order before fibers break
An international team led by Hiroshima University has found that skin collagen loses its precise molecular organization long before fibers visibly thin or break — a hidden warning sign conventional im
Fugitive Doctor Posed as Biotech Executive for 20 Years
Ronald Fischer, a former anesthesiologist and Rhode Island most-wanted fugitive, was arrested aboard a sailboat off New Jersey after 20 years on the run from sexual assault charges, apparently having
Math Fix Revives Paraparticles as Third Particle Category
Physicists Zhiyuan Wang and Kaden Hazzard have published a 2025 paper reviving 'paraparticles' — a long-dismissed third category of particles beyond bosons and fermions — by solving a fatal locality p
Rare identical quadruplets born in Australia
A 34-year-old Australian woman has delivered naturally conceived identical quadruplets — all girls sharing one placenta — by caesarean at 28 weeks, in what her doctor calls a one-in-15-million pregnan
UCLA cuts sunscreen's white cast with tetrapod zinc oxide
UCLA researchers reshaped zinc oxide into microscopic four-armed tetrapods to create a mineral sunscreen that keeps SPF 30 protection while leaving far less of the chalky white cast that often deters
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